Magazine cigarette case with cigarette lighting means



Sept. l2, 1950 2,522,041

G. R. JOHNSSON MAGAZINE CIGARETTE CASE WITH CIGARETTE LIGHTING MEANS Filed NOV. 7, 1947 the cigarette will slide downward by its own weight until eventually it will contact a spiral filament 6 provided in a socket v'wl"'1ich' is consti-vv When if? f yfrom u its funoperated position to its discharge tuted by an extension I0 of the bridge. the bridge is being swung tpwards itsv vertical position it may be caused to close a pair of contacts diagrammatically illustrated at `Iilcthrou'ghf which current is fed to the iilament'-fromthe In a few seconds the cignarette will have been litpby the lament and may" source of current I2.

thenhbe conveniently withdrawnfrom the socket. The "bridge is thenl swung baalt again- 'into horizontal position, and dcring'thrs movement it opens said contacts,whereby'-vthe' current Il'The' invention,l of course',-isnotlimitedjto the embodiment illustrated-'Tand described` herein,

and nor tothe application in conjunction with cars, thesame being'capable off'v'a-r'ious modications and applications `without departing from the spirit of"the invention lvas deiined in the following claims. VVhai?clairn'ist"r I j l 1. A magazine `cigarfettecase comprising a cigarettema'gazine foriho'izontally disposed cig'- arettes, adischarge opening'inth'e lbottom por-- tion of said 1 case, 'automatically operated electric cigarette, 'lighting means, fmanual1y operable means for-discharging one'ic'igarette at' a' time from said magazine and -forbringing said cigarette into 'contact witl'i'sa'id lighter, v'said discharge means; comprising-fa "'spring-actuated cliut'el'pivotally "mounted along ,said discharge O iening, andl al-"pivotally` mounted bridge cooperating with said-chute and forming areleasable continuationj thereoi; said fchut'e vbeing se- Acured to "a "spindle 'jounalled- 'inl the' side walls ofsaidv case, said spindle haVin'gonejend thereof extending*-outsidef-one i of said vvcase walls, said spindle end comprisinga lp'ortiim atright angles to ituhe' ,main portion of the spind learidextendingy parallel to the` bottom of saidchutafsaid bridge being pivoted' on saidjlast-named 'spindle rend Portion," n. 'lj

cigarette "magazine -qfor horizontally disposed cigarettes, a discharge "op'eifiingiii4 the bottomI portion of saidL case;4t automatically operated 'ele'c trici cigarette lighting-` means",L manually operated means -for 'discharging'ion'e' cigarette" at? a time from said magazine andlforbringingsaid cigarene into contattwithsaidlighting-meenemen 4 discharge means comprising a spring-actuated chute pivotally mounted along said discharge opening, a pivotally mounted bridge forming a continuation of said chute, said chute being secured to a spindle journalled in the side walls of said case, said spindle having one end thereof extending outside one of said case walls, said yspindle -end .comprising a portion at right angles to. the m ain portion of the'spindle'and extending parallel to the bottom of said chute, said bridge ,being pivoted on said last-named spindle end portion, engagement means provided on said bridge andreleasably (zo-operating with said chute in Ysuchv a manner that said bridge, when subjected to Va downward ,pressure intermediate its points oi support, will cause said chute to be swung fpositini' and that said bridge, when subjected to anf.-upwardly directed pressure between said points Joi" support, will `'be disengaged from said chute and itself rotated about its axis into a. vertical position said bridgey when moving 'into a' vertical 4position energizing said lighting means.

3. vAf"I nagazine cigarette ycase comprising a cigarettegmagazine for horizontally disposed cig arettes', a discharge opening in the bottom portion o f said case, s`a id discharge means comprising a. spring-'actuatedchute pivotally mounted along said'discharge'A opening, a pivotally mounted bridgeco-operating with said chute and-forming a'releasable continuation thereof, said chute beingA securedto a spindlejournalled in the side walls'of-said case, said spindlehaving one end thereof extending-outside one' of said case walls, said spindle end comprising a portion at right angles to the main portion of the spindle and 'extending parallel :to vthe bottom of said chute, said bridge being ypivoted on saidy last-named spindleend portion; said chute and bridge serv.- ingiin' common to'receive a cigarette being discharged andjsaid bridge further serving tomove said vcigarette into a vertical position, a socket forming an extension of saidbridge, the length ofisaid socket being substantially less than that of the cigarette, a, spiral filament disposed in theouter end of said socket, a source of current, circuit means between said source'and said lament and contact means in said ycircuit for openingand closing the circuit through said iilament," said contact means being actuable by said bridge-'to closed position when said bridge is swung towards its'vertical position and to -be opened when the bridge is being swung back to its horizontal position.

' lG'USTAV RIKARD JOHNSSON.

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